Old school ranting

The home office is paying compensation to convicted criminals who they jailed, because they didn’t supply them with drugs or methadone, thus forcing them to go “cold turkey” (i.e. obey the law) whilst in jail. The average pay out is £4,000. Staggering.

On the same day, they jailed a 75 year old pensioner because he didn’t want to pay the above inflation increase in council tax. So pay money to criminals but jail pensioners?

Iraq. We originally went into Iraq to stop Saddam developing WMD, but whoops there aren’t any, but no problem, lets have a democratic government that can spread peace and democracy across the middle east, but whoops, that’s not working and the violence is out of all control, so it’s actually a war on terror, only who are the terrorists and why can’t they just stand still while we shoot them, so whoops, change again, lets lecture the “Axis of Evil” (i.e. Iran and Syria) to do what we want, when we have no way at all to make them do it and nothing to offer them, because the army is tied up.
This is the fourth, clueless, “bound to fail” policy being suggested by out of touch incompetents that make WW1 Generals seem like a paragon of efficiency, meanwhile, our soldiers continue dying futile deaths, hundreds of Iraqis are killed every week and terror is boosted not reduced. Total failure.